The Romanes Lecture is a prestigious free public lecture given annually at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, England. The lecture series was founded by...

Kingdom, which would set Romanes on the path to a fruitful and lasting relationship with Charles Darwin. During his youth, Romanes resided temporarily in...

pessimistic views in his Romanes Lecture of 1920, "The Idea of Progress" and in his Evening Standard articles. In his Romanes Lecture he said that although...

Huxley's 1893 Romanes Lecture, "Evolution and Ethics", is exceedingly influential in China; the Chinese translation of Huxley's lecture even transformed...

was an Honorary Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. She gave the Romanes Lecture for 1984–5 in Oxford. Rothschild was elected a Fellow of the Royal...

public lectures since it was founded in 1597 The Reith Lectures, broadcast annually on the BBC, founded in honour of Lord Reith The Romanes Lectures, on...

Scotland Romanes Lecture, an annual lecture in Oxford, England Los Romanes, a hamlet in Andalusia, Spain Roman (surname), includes the Romans surname Romani...

its defense of natural law. He also presented the Oxford University Romanes Lecture in 1963 on Mountstuart Elphinstone. Lord Radcliffe married Antonia...

integrity of history was threatened. In 1992 Blake gave the centenary Romanes Lecture on "Gladstone, Disraeli and Queen Victoria". Blake was for many years...

continued his academic work. In May 1939, he gave the prestigious Romanes Lecture in Oxford on Art and Freedom, and in 1940, he was appointed the Byron...

from five universities, including Oxford, where he delivered the 1931 Romanes Lecture taking as his subject "Shakespeare and Spiritual Life". Galsworthy...

Cold War. Also in 1952, Namier was given the honour of delivering the Romanes Lecture, on which subject Namier chose Monarchy and the Party System. In 1917...

Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199513895. News coverage of the 1998 Romanes Lecture in the Oxford University Gazette. Sen, Amartya (February 1986), Food...

"Adam Smith Lecture at Glasgow University". Yunus Centre. Archived from the original on 9 October 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2012. "Romanes Lecture". University...

to visitors. The theatre is used for music recitals, lectures (such as the annual Romanes Lecture), conferences, and for various ceremonies held by the...

and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1912. In 1914, he gave the Romanes Lecture in Oxford on "The atomic theory". In 1918, he became Master of Trinity...

gave the Romanes Lecture, entitled "Science and the human purpose", at the University of Oxford in 1978; and in 1988 he gave the Dimbleby Lecture, "Knowledge...

the study of art". While at Oxford, Clark was greatly impressed by the lectures of Roger Fry, the influential art critic who staged the first Post-Impressionism...

It is, however, usually George Romanes who is credited with the first use of the word in a scientific context. Romanes used the term to describe the combination...

The Boyle Lectures are named after Robert Boyle, a prominent natural philosopher of the 17th century and son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork. Under...

pure-Darwinism which proposed a "greater efficacy" for natural selection. George Romanes dubbed this view as "Wallaceism", noting that in contrast to Darwin, this...

"Bright Star" Bonfire of the Humanities on YouTube, Andrew Motion's Romanes Lecture (2011) at Oxford University (video) Papers of Andrew Motion at the...

Taylorian Lecture on "Poetry and the First World War". In 1966 he gave the Romanes Lecture. Bowra was at Harvard when the post of vice-chancellor fell unexpectedly...

World of Sound (1920) William Henry Bragg, The Crystalline State – The Romanes Lecture for 1925. Oxford, 1925. William Henry Bragg, Concerning the Nature...

form… Those who heard him on a great occasion, as when he gave his Romanes lecture at Oxford or his British Association presidential address at Birmingham...

(1909) by E.S. Goodrich Extinct Animals (1905) Nature and Man (1905) (Romanes Lecture for 1905) The Kingdom of Man (1907) Science from an Easy Chair (1910)...

the time of his death, he had been invited by Oxford to deliver the Romanes Lecture. After his death, the F. W. Maitland Memorial Fund was established...

M. Sir Donald F. Tovey (1936) – Normality and Freedom in Music The Romanes Lecture Delivered in The Sheldonian Theatre 20 May 1936. Oxford, At the Clarendon...

Society, where he gave the Croonian Lecture in 1924. Four years later, he was invited to give the Romanes Lecture at the University of Oxford; he spoke...

(1998) Balfour, Arthur James. Criticism and Beauty: A Lecture Rewritten, Being the Romanes Lecture for 1909 (Oxford, 1910) online Cecil, Robert, and Arthur...